" LONG BASTARD SWORD
Blued hilt. Pear-shaped pommel, with small button on top, horizontally re-curved quillons of circular section terminating in pear-shaped knobs like the pommel; PAS D'ANE, with open
cage of guards, one being a transverse bar joining the ring to the pas d' ane; on the other side a bar projecting horizontally and ending in a knob like the quillons. Shouldered grip bound with cord. The two-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section at the hilt merging into bi-convex towards the point." Wallace